The Future Is Bright for the Obsidian Energy

The Obsidian Energy, formerly known as the Penn West Petroleum is a Canadian oil and gas firm boasting of assets of high quality. Obsidian Energy Ltd has its headquarters in Calgary Alberta and is currently under the leadership of its experienced CEO David Roberts Junior. The company operates oil-related portfolios Peace River, Viking, and Cardium regions in Alberta. The Peace River concentrates on the crude oil resources, Cardium area deals with the low-decline and light-oil production. The Viking area focuses on the mixture of short cycle wells and light oil. The organizational structure and the abundant assets enable the company delivery excellent results such as the production of approximately 30,000 barrels each day.

The entrepreneurial spirit within Obsidian Energy has led to the success of the company in the ever-changing industry. The company owes its tremendous success to its relentless passion and discipline for what they do and utmost accountability to the investors and other business partners. The company’s top management initiated a series of changes that led to the company changing its name from Penn West to match the redefining efforts in the company and to give it a new face. The company attaches great significance to the contributions of its shareholders as witnessed during the name change. The company only announced the name change after the approval of the name by the shareholders. According to an article that covered the name change event on the Boereport, the company also changed its stock symbol with “OBE”.

The Obsidian aimed to achieve more than it did before, it was built on the principle of accountability and transparency, innovation and progress, and commercial and technical decision-making. Since the name change, the company has maintained a strategic position, having the appropriate assets in place and a heavy balance sheet to get things done. The judicious hedging strategy in the company has enabled the company to make steady annual growth, control its debts, and attain good leverage. Although the company registers poor performance as compared to its peers, a factor hugely contributed by its low production growth, it still attracts positive valuation and has a good chance of performing better in the coming years.